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2016 as (partially) retold through Christmas Carols
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas folks, which is why i’ve taken it upon myself to adapt five of the best-loved yuletide…
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I attended a video game book club
It’s rather disconcerting to think that man’s most expedient form of public transport i.e. the rail network can be brought low by something as…
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Sam’s Game of the Year – 2016: Attack on Titan
Is it just me or has the the term ‘Game of the Year’ lost a little bit of lustre lately? Simply snag a 75-or-above…
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Does Crash’s new look bode well for the N. Sane Trilogy?
Unlike many of my chums I never had an older brother. Mum and Dad just wouldn’t allow it. “Temporal paradox” they called it… And…
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Why an emotional connection can overcome mechanical shortcomings
Websters defines the term ‘analytical awakening’ as ‘error, search term not found’, but I prefer to think of it as ‘the start of critical…
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Rollercoaster Tycoon, and the joys of murderous capitalism
Here’s the thing about roller coasters. I personally can’t stand the things. Now as to the question of why I don’t like them… well,…
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Taking the scenic route: Why FFXV’s travel system worries me
I’ll be the first to admit that that when it comes to real life rambling (that’s the hiking, not the verbal diarrhoea) strolling along…
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Football Games: The more they change, the more they stay the same
They say that you should never go back. Who 'they' are, and why they remain so bloody insistent on keeping me out of SeaWorld…
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The Xbox Duke, remembered…
Duke… the very name is suggestive of royalty, of fancy-panted monarchs both chinless and infinitely-chinned. Of 90s-era 4x4s executing the perfect barrel roll, or…
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Battlefield 1 is a game at war with itself
“A house divided against itself cannot stand”, or so the old saying goes. Then again, ‘Honest Abe’ never stood in front of an M.C.…